Listen "Locked Up and Poxxed: THE Venereal Disease and Women who Sold Sex in the Victorian British Empire"
Episode Synopsis
Sex Series #1 of 4. Have you been tested? Averill and Elizabeth take a look at the long history of Europeans blaming women for sexual transmitted diseases, and the gendered and racially charged British imperial policies for locking up women to protect the penises of imperial men. A complete transcript and the full list of sources and further reading are available at digpodcast.org. Some of the key sources for this episode include:
ed. Kevin Siena, Sins of the Flesh: Responding to Sexual Disease in Early Modern Europe; Philippa Levine,Prostitution, Race, and Politics: Policing Venereal Disease in the British Empire; Alain Corbin, Women for hire: Prostitution and sexuality in France after 1850 ; Jill Harsin, Policing Prostitution in Nineteenth-Century Paris; and LOTS of articles - check out the Bibliography for all of them!
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ed. Kevin Siena, Sins of the Flesh: Responding to Sexual Disease in Early Modern Europe; Philippa Levine,Prostitution, Race, and Politics: Policing Venereal Disease in the British Empire; Alain Corbin, Women for hire: Prostitution and sexuality in France after 1850 ; Jill Harsin, Policing Prostitution in Nineteenth-Century Paris; and LOTS of articles - check out the Bibliography for all of them!
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